A Hypothetical - Cancelling Afrasiabi

[Akiyass-moon-guard (Akiyass)]

@Deathisfinal-gnomeregan

You would be hard pressed to find any race that meets the criteria you set forth. What makes the NE so special?

LOL, a single victory? One win? That is to much to ask? You are delusional.

@Deathisfinal-gnomeregan

This is too murky for me.

I have talked about it at nauseum at this point… Let me see if I can copy paste something I already said to explain this.

@Akiyass-moon-guard

Given the current accusations regarding his behavior in the workplace, the fact that he shows a pattern of villainizing female characters after throwing them through life-altering traumatic events, while simultaneously exonerating the hyper-masculine characters who, in some cases, was responsible for said traumatic events… is hella disturbing.

I don’t think I need to spell-out the implications here.

Addition: Night Elves are Matriarchal. Most of their racial leaders are some form of Girl Boss trope. Myself and many people I know see them as a beacon of girl power in Azeroth, and something of feminist icons. And they have certainly received the kind of treatment detailed above.

“Only the Goddess may forbid me anything” Are words to live by for any girl.

@Akiyass-moon-guard

In one cinematic we received confirmation that the Kaldorei will not be getting their justice as well as one of the largest displays of culture erasure ever shown by Blizzard.

When you refuse to allow a race to exist without suffering homogenization and culture erasure, when you refuse to allow them to be anything more than disposable currency both in the sense of their culture defining faith, but also in the sense of narrative motivation (Exchanged for cheap shock value and emotional motivations for non Nelf characters). When you refuse to allow female characters stand on their own and be powerful, forcing them to earn their competency with trauma and tragedy, only to villainize them for pursuing justice… There is just no way for that race to exist in a setting. They are a blank slate, stripped of everything that gave them an identity. A skeleton for an identity to be copy and pasted onto with no power or meaning that is their own.

From a worldbuilding perspective. It’s like Blizzard is following a step by step formula on how to deconstruct a setting and render it null and void.